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Filed: Dec. 03, 2019
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Summary: ORDER JESSE M. FURMAN , District Judge . Earlier today, pro se Plaintiff Desarey Clem requested leave to file a response to New GM's reply in further support of its motion for summary judgment. See 18-CV-8713, ECF No. 65. Specifically, Ms. Clem seeks "to clarify [her] position to the [C]ourt, submit a declaration, and evidence in support" of her position. Because Ms. Clem is a pro se litigant, she is due "special solicitude." Tracy v. Freshwater, 623 F.3d 90 , 101 (2d Cir. 2010).
Summary: ORDER JESSE M. FURMAN , District Judge . Earlier today, pro se Plaintiff Desarey Clem requested leave to file a response to New GM's reply in further support of its motion for summary judgment. See 18-CV-8713, ECF No. 65. Specifically, Ms. Clem seeks "to clarify [her] position to the [C]ourt, submit a declaration, and evidence in support" of her position. Because Ms. Clem is a pro se litigant, she is due "special solicitude." Tracy v. Freshwater, 623 F.3d 90 , 101 (2d Cir. 2010). A..
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ORDER
JESSE M. FURMAN, District Judge.
Earlier today, pro se Plaintiff Desarey Clem requested leave to file a response to New GM's reply in further support of its motion for summary judgment. See 18-CV-8713, ECF No. 65. Specifically, Ms. Clem seeks "to clarify [her] position to the [C]ourt, submit a declaration, and evidence in support" of her position.
Because Ms. Clem is a pro se litigant, she is due "special solicitude." Tracy v. Freshwater, 623 F.3d 90, 101 (2d Cir. 2010). Accordingly, the Court GRANTS in part Ms. Clem's request for leave to file a declaration or other evidence supporting factual assertions and legal arguments made in her opposition brief.
The special solicitude afforded pro se litigants, however, "does not by itself excuse a litigant from complying with procedural rules." Aponte v. Liggett Group, No. 13-CV-569 (JMF), 2014 WL 2207995, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. May 23, 2014). The Court therefore DENIES Ms. Clem's request to reply to New GM's brief.
Ms. Clem shall file any declaration or other evidence supporting factual assertions and legal arguments made in her opposition brief no later than December 13, 2019. To clarify, she may not make any new factual assertions or legal arguments in her submissions; instead, her submissions must be limited to evidence in support of the arguments she already made in her opposition brief. See ECF No. 60.
The Clerk of Court is directed to terminate 18-CV-8713, ECF No. 65.
SO ORDERED.
